!!!Schwanenstadt

Schwanenstadt, Upper Austria, town in the district of Voecklabruck, 
alt. 389 m, pop. 3,787, area 2.58 km%%sup 2/%, on the Ager 
River, at the edge of the Hausruck mountain. - District court, youth 
welfare office of the district commission; 2,760 people employed 
(1991), approximately half of whom in the service sector (esp. trade 
in upholstered furniture and crane installations, large forwarding 
agency) and the other half in the production sector; the fairly 
limited area of the town led to close economic co-operation with 
neighbouring villages and towns: abattoir and meat industry, 
wood-working industry (joinery), cheese factory, textile industry, 
metal (crown caps) and plastics processing (also in Ruestorf), hotel 
furnishings, mixed feed producers. - Documented mention in 790 as 
"Suanse", declared a town in 1627. Parish church (1900-1902) 
by M. Schlager; late Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary and Mount of 
Olives relief (15%%sup th/%  century); Gothic Calvary church 
(around 1488), redecorated in Baroque style, on Philippsberg hill with 
Stations of the Cross; mechanical "Lenten crib" (i.e. scenes 
from Lent and the Passion of Christ); hospital church altered in 
Baroque style (1750), today Protestant church; local heritage museum 
in the town hall (1939).

!Literature
Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, Die Staedte Oberoesterr., 
1968.


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